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Former Youngest Person in the World!!

stuartellison.com
fantactico.com
knostr.io
zairk.com
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2025-08-26 16:30:13 UTC

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Say my account is an app, I would publish a not that looks like this…
*****
Version 1.0
File 1 @nevent000001…
File 2 @nevent000002…
File 3 @nevent000003…
[…]
*****
Then say I modify the code base (I only change file 2), I publish a new note that looks like this…
*****
Version 1.1
File 1 @nevent000001…
File 2 @nevent000017…
File 3 @nevent000003…
[…]
*****
I have modified file 2 and so I just publish a version 1.1 note from the account with the modified code note included as a link.
For users to update their software they just lookup the nostr account, find the latest published version note and retrieve each of the file notes.

2025-08-26 16:16:39 UTC

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Because every note has an identifier key.
You have a nostr account for each application, and that account publishes a signed note that links to all the code containing notes.
A new application version is just a new account note, all previous versions are just that accounts past notes.
You can compile an app made of any code notes from any contributor.
It’s signed by the key that controls the nostr account.
It’s ridiculously simple.

2025-08-26 16:08:46 UTC

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It would be quite easy and sinple to store code on nostr. Complete with version control, permissions and forks, but everyone then said they would never leave Git.

2025-06-05 22:37:15 UTC

I think the world just moved 3 spaces toward Jack’s vision of the future.
SovX just calved an ice shelf.

2025-04-10 07:40:53 UTC

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I have been summoned back to nostr by my notifications.
How are things developing?

2025-04-05 23:23:56 UTC

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Congratulations.

2025-02-19 02:04:41 UTC

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I agree that Claude is excellent, probably my favourite model for writing documents, I’ve just been using Grok3 tonight and it’s actually very good.

2025-01-27 21:13:32 UTC

Hi everyone, what do people think Deepseek now? #note1qq3…a5rg

2025-01-24 20:18:09 UTC

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Zaps are phenomenally powerful and we learnt this when they were first introduced.
Apple curbed it, but we all saw and felt it first hand.

2025-01-24 16:56:42 UTC

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It’s crazy that Open Source is now SOTA and also crazy that this model was supposedly developed for just $5m when big tech has already spent 50,000x that amount for the same result. https://image.nostr.build/3e3aa4240877f97046169cf5f0d0e1b1af66a2057bf10e6ab684ad0d904c8ec8.jpg

2025-01-24 16:43:38 UTC

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Yes, I’ve always thought open source would easily win the AI space.
I think 10 years from now we will laugh that there were once “AI companies”.
Just checking it’s actually on par with GPT-o1, it’s open source is currently SOTA.

2025-01-24 16:39:28 UTC

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Open Source AI model out of China that supposedly cost $5m and is comparable to GPT-4.
The whole thing cost less than 1 VP annual salary at Meta.

2025-01-24 16:34:45 UTC

What do people think of DeepSeek?

2025-01-23 22:20:47 UTC

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1). He doesn’t give a shit.

2024-12-22 00:07:37 UTC

I’ve started something in the UK that is intended to be the substrate for an ecosystem of decentralised political groups.
Intention is to compete with these monolithic legacy parties and their corporate broadcast media.
Have a few public figures involved. Currently have ~20 developers signed up to contribute.
nostr feels like it should be the base level comms network.
If anyone is interested in learning more please DM me.

2024-11-11 14:20:52 UTC

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When the student becomes the master.

2024-11-11 14:19:52 UTC

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Take it up with BLS.

2024-11-11 13:48:21 UTC

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BLS says mean total employer costs were $46.21 per hour for civilian government workers for the month of June 2024.
bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
Do government workers average 83 hours per week?

2024-11-11 13:44:33 UTC

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I’m just surprised it wasn’t the main focus for the Democrat campaign. They barely mentioned it.
Vivek was talking about 50% being fired, Elon is of similar mindset. Trump talks about the savings Elon made at Twitter where it’s claimed he cut 80%.
Nobody really pushed them on this in terms of what it actually means and who the consequences will fall on.
I guess we now get to find out. https://image.nostr.build/0f2d495fd4bc1d3011d04369ae8c05ca109476801fc67bd8145256c5be5e3177.jpg

2024-11-11 13:33:23 UTC

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That’s not what I did.
I don’t think $200,000 is the mean pay for government employees.

2024-11-11 13:29:34 UTC

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I’m not sure if your “pessimistic” means more or fewer job cuts or a a greater or smaller saving than $2T.

2024-11-11 13:26:28 UTC

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$2 trillion is a big number.
Government employs about 22m people.
Government spends $7.0T and collects $5.0T revenue
$2T / $200,000 = 10 million jobs.
Seems like the right ballpark, might be even more job cuts if welfare and defence purchases are maintained.

2024-11-11 12:57:18 UTC

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The cuts or the jobs?

2024-11-11 12:56:48 UTC

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There’s a natural visceral fear when someone you distrust has power over you. A lot of people distrust Trump.
But the US system is designed with a powerful immune system. It’s very difficult to do a lot. It’s a system designed around incremental adjustments.
One thing I don’t think a lot of people acknowledge is that Elon is only 52 and he’s going to be around for 30-40 years, long after all the politicians come and go several times over. That’s an awful lot of incremental adjustments.
The politicians are disposable.
Term limits really empower the financiers and you have Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Gates all there and to a slightly lesser extent Ellison and Buffett who have less time.
Losing power to the plutocrats like this is a consequence of ignoring anti trust cases, America turned a blind eye just because the monopolists were US based and because the US benefited.
Americans were a bit too happy to have the rest of the world pay the Google and Apple tax and didn’t see the bigger risk. I doubt people really notice for another decade, but the post-2008 world has now fallen back into Namoi Klein’s model where capital controls government.
You won’t get power back until the internet dies and the electorate drifts offline and thinks for itself, which I suspect will eventually happen as people get jaded by bots and fakery, but not for a generation or more.

2024-11-11 12:14:53 UTC

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People are not prepared for some of the claims made. He said he would try and cut $2trillion from the budget, but that’s something like 10m jobs!
Out of interest (and you don’t need to answer) do you still own Twitter stock?

2024-11-11 11:57:32 UTC

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Compared to… other films? 🤔 no.

2024-11-11 10:53:17 UTC

A side project I’ve been doing this year.
Started making a football analysis tool, I coach an U16’s team. Have a few coaching badges and I’m going to age out of coaching when my team turns 18. Probably giving me back 12-15 hours per week.
So I’ve been trying to capture some of the knowledge I picked up and crystallise it in a little web app. I have 2 long train journeys per fortnight and have been working on it then.
It uses a weighted Voronoi diagram and player traits to determine spatial control of the field.
A few years ago I spoke quite a bit with Bill Spearman who is the chief data scientist at Liverpool FC. They do some amazing stuff behind the scenes but it’s such a competitive advantage it’s secretive and doesn’t really benefit the grassroots, and it’s invisible to lot of fans.
I have a decent development plan that will probably take me well into next year. But I’m going to build a nostr forum into it.
Mission is to build a tactical aid for fans and grassroots coaches when watching games.
I’m developing it in public at
https://fantactico.com
It’s pretty raw, but has spatial control, player orientation, reaction, speed, physicality, offside, time on the ball… I’m going to build in xG control, ball physics, pass value, a game clock, formations, phases of play, fatigue, player and team database, chat forums and maybe one day an exchange (or maybe not). https://video.nostr.build/e773af232f7c946d2d36d0a852234d66a5156da243c8c3f65388579e3f420c74.mp4

2024-11-11 10:33:43 UTC

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Yeah, I’ve been trying to de-online myself a bit more especially when at home.
Put the phone down.
Especially between 5pm and 10pm which is family time that I’m never getting back. I think cellphones might be the top deathbed regret in another decade or so.
It’s not easy. These things are weaponised.

2024-11-11 09:22:44 UTC

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I used to play rugby when I was younger. I played at quite a high level, could have signed a professional contract if there was any money in the sport.
Anyway, when I was 21 and at University I was the club captain and we had a coach called Frank Wilson. He was born in 1944 he played international rugby for Wales, he is one of the top 20 all time Welsh try scorers (210 tries in 435 professional games), challenge cup winner, he is of Welsh mining heritage and was black. I cannot imagine how tough it must have been for him growing up.
Anyway, 2003 or so and our University team (coached by Frank) were training one night and Frank was getting annoyed that the intensity wasn’t there.
He stopped the session, picked me out, gave me a ball and asked me to run at him as hard as I could.
I was 21 he was 58, I was probably 50lb heavier than he was and 2 inches taller than him.
I was concerned about bowling him over onto some equipment nearby, I thought he was crazy (he was a bit crazy).
But I have never been hit so hard before or after, in my entire life and over the years I played with a lot of people my own age who went on to dominate the sport at the top level.
I wasn’t just stopped, I was flat on my back with Frank on top of me. It was like being shot with a cannon. Frank was immediately worried he had given me brain damage or something and pulled me up patting me down checking I was OK. But his point stays with me forever… don’t waste your time.
I look back and I know some people are just not like the rest of us. I think Mike Tyson has this in him too, or certain did once upon a time.
But it’s more than possible for some 58 year old man to squash bigger men in their prime.

2024-11-01 12:47:48 UTC

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Just raise your kids to be capable of love.

2024-11-01 12:21:09 UTC

I am now fairly confident I have purchased my last iPhone. I don’t think I will ever own an Android phone.
I have spent a few late nights over the past year toying with really obscure stuff like bootloaders and kernels, stuff that nobody cares about because it was solved long ago.
I’m not likely to build anything here, I have nothing to sell, but I’m really just trying to understand what is possible.
What is possible; it’s not too hard to write an extended bootloader that launches a bare metal runtime environment.
You can write modules that can probe and initialise most of the hardware including a network adapter.
The network adapter is crucial because it allows the bootloader to connect to public API’s which can then inject far more capable code and begin to stand up a self assembling system that runs on bare metal.
Essentially writing a bespoke runtime environment on demand that is specifically adapted for the host hardware.
There is definitely a path for ASI to seize all of the computers. To inject itself under the operating system and directly onto bare metal. The ultimate jailbreak.
There is a path for computers (and phones), to become UX amorphous, a black box that offers you everything on demand.
I think in 25 years time, all computers/machines will probably work this way and all that really matters is who (or what) controls it.

2024-10-09 08:41:30 UTC

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5 years after the treaty is signed.
https://www.iana.org/help/cctld-retirement

2024-10-09 08:40:40 UTC

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Normal IANA process dictates that the TLA will be retired once the country no longer exists.
You have 5 years until the two letter ccTLD is removed. https://image.nostr.build/97d04746a2bd8ab0829a66aaba3f7591991d9ddab6f35bd2a94e18781deb6c3a.jpg

2024-10-08 20:57:24 UTC

Am I right in understanding that .io domains are at risk of disappearing from DNS if the UK surrenders the Chagos Islands to Mauritius?

2024-08-31 23:35:24 UTC

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The problem is corruption.
I don’t mean naked corruption like bribes, etc, just the legal stuff of favours and interests that hijack the system and bleed it out whilst everyone else is trying to concentrate on their own life. That’s the problem.
It’s all so late stage and infected.

2024-08-26 09:32:27 UTC

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No, Linux is a general computing OS.

2024-08-26 08:49:44 UTC

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Yes, people are talking about how LLM’s make English a programming language and how they use English prompts to write Python response.
This is obviously dumb.
We should be using LLM’s to translate English prompts into assembly code and running on bare metal.
Bootloader + LLM is all you need.
No apps, no OS, no 3rd parties.
It’s vastly more secure because you’re only running your own code and it’s completely novel on every boot.

2024-08-26 00:46:51 UTC

With SOTA LLM’s you can write your own bootloader that boots your pc into a runtime environment that does not require an OS.
You can actually have the LLM’s write bare metal code that runs.
You can do RAM only systems.
With LLM’s it’s not that hard to break outside the shell on just about any machine. You can boot into bare metal and just skip the entire OS.
You can initialise network hardware and do really specific highly optimal stuff running bare metal code.
I don’t think we need operating systems or programs any more, this sounds so stupid but I think the whole tech stack is like Wylie Coyote, I think in 10 years the entire runtime environment and application layer might just self assemble on boot as the user prompts an LLM to ad hoc code the whole stack to execute some task.
It will be more powerful, more feature specific, faster, more malleable.

2024-08-06 17:33:03 UTC

What are the biggest nostr dramas of 2024 so far?

2024-07-29 10:17:31 UTC

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Yes, it’s pretty amazing.
Lots of elements of a new internet are here.

2024-07-29 01:07:41 UTC

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Nostr just needs more and more ramps, more portals in and out.
It doesn’t need (or want) to be a walled garden.

2024-07-29 00:51:15 UTC

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Torrents of money?

2024-07-14 08:40:06 UTC

Heading to US in the morning, interesting times.

2024-07-14 08:36:57 UTC

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It’s only right that you can’t delete this.

2024-07-14 00:50:52 UTC

This is not OK. https://image.nostr.build/17d2a29dc18372a84c6a76f7dc7a7cb87b875bdd93b7c765c18b536dfd00f87b.jpg

2024-07-14 00:29:13 UTC

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Nah, people are not the stupid sheep you claim they are, and are more than capable of thinking for themselves.

2024-07-13 22:17:13 UTC

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😂

2024-07-13 21:48:02 UTC

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It’s true.

2024-07-13 21:40:06 UTC

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… and now I am become Time. https://image.nostr.build/0597b9e056a01eb3a1f45e112873c9d3e59b1d2fa3c210d807f924d1e5ef0dbd.jpg

2024-07-13 21:35:50 UTC

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It’s only once you realise you don’t need permission, that you’re finally free.

2024-07-13 21:34:51 UTC

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He’s the potential match winner.

2024-07-13 21:31:42 UTC

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Everyone eventually ends up on nostr, it’s just a matter of time.
It’s the only place on the internet where you don’t need anyone’s permission.

2024-07-13 21:29:17 UTC

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I do not.
I’m hoping for a massive reversal of recent form and some sort of divine intervention.

2024-07-13 21:26:28 UTC

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I’m super sensitive to anything red and yellow this weekend.

2024-06-08 21:31:24 UTC

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There’s no reason Twitter can’t run on nostr, it sure would save them a lot of legal bills around the world.
It would occupy the protocol though given the current size disparity.
Elon’s biggest strength is that every world leader wants to be photographed meeting him and if you are censoring people online you aren’t getting that photo, maybe he even meets your opponent?

2024-06-08 20:56:00 UTC

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Basically…
1) turn off a PC / laptop.
2) plug this plain looking lightning cable in
3) turn on PC / laptop
4) rather than boot up as normal it will boot from cable (if USB boot enabled)
5) prompts for a web URL
6) you enter a specific URL
7) PC / laptop boots an OS from the URL, boots a shell into RAM only
8) You now have an OS shell running on the PC / laptop in RAM (volatile), it doesn’t touch the disc and it loads all this from an OS image that you do not even possess.
Why bother?
This leaves no trace of your session on the host, no logs, the host never even booted.
The only trace that a session happened is on the rooter logs where the host machine IP will appear, but it always appears there so doesn’t look odd.
If you are caught with the hardware, it just looks like a charger and not a flash drive it’s overlooked, if someone does trys plugging it into a machine anyway, it has no data on it, no credentials, no applications, no operating system.
Just a boot.ini package that boots to an iPXE prompt.
My plan is to see if I can squeeze a mag switch into the connector so that I can wire it as a cable and then use magnet (in the lighting end) to switch it to the hidden flash.
It’s just a fun little project.

2024-06-08 19:07:18 UTC

Turning an old iPhone cable into a USB boot device that boots iPXE, and on boot requests an http address for RAM only OS image.
The computer that doesn’t exist. https://image.nostr.build/4308db267f7c6fe811d283d51ef979f733c7843d1ac3ba6b3a69e2baec3d91f8.jpg

2024-06-08 01:49:24 UTC

Has anyone played with https://websim.ai ?

2024-06-06 13:12:48 UTC

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LLM’s are a great tool for thinking stuff through.

2024-06-06 12:59:07 UTC

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Wait, if he’s yellow, then that means…

2024-06-06 12:58:20 UTC

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Hard times…

2024-06-06 11:56:58 UTC

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What’s crazy, is that I don’t usually eat breakfast, but yesterday I have a little leaflet to read saying I would be eating something for breakfast today as part of some tests, and my stomach seems to have set an appointment.

2024-06-06 11:54:32 UTC

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Yeah, occasionally I have some all consuming busyness to deal with.

2024-06-06 11:48:55 UTC

I’m currently fasting for one of these health metric kits and doing a bunch of blood and guts test.
But I had to do the school run this morning, ad hoc, and now I’m 2 hours late on every meal, and the hunger is killing me. 🤣
What have I signed up to?

2024-06-06 11:44:36 UTC

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Attention is All you Need.

2024-05-13 08:50:58 UTC

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That is an open ended fiscal system, and that’s not what we have.
The US government has the Treasury General Account. The UK government has the Consolidated Fund. These bank accounts are a part of the economy, they don’t ever go negative and their balances are published daily. Look them up.
In a capitalist economy (pre-2008), government deficit spending is supposed to drive up interest rates, as the gov has to go to the bond market to borrow more money. But since 2008, the Central Banks have just created new money to buy bonds and force rates low whilst encouraging ever more deficit spending.
2008 really broke capitalism and since then we have had a sort of monetary command and control economy. But it doesn’t work like the diagram shown above.

2024-05-13 08:36:43 UTC

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Start at the very bottom of the stack.
1). The physical network exists and it’s not yours. Not your servers, not your routers.
2). IP addresses are assigned by IANA. This is a permission request.
To create a decentralised network, the network ID’s / addresses would need to be self generated not assigned from a permission granting institution. You should self declare an identity and the network should propagate it with your traffic. First time connections would be slow, second time connections would be fast.
The Internet Protocol we all use at the base is highly centralised. You can create abstract networks within the internet like VPN’s do, or onion, but all the exit points are centrally assigned IP’s.
Why bother when we have encryption?
As great and fundamental as TCP/IP is, it is not permissionless and although this permission is always granted and is always frictionless, the result of IP design is a central register that geotags and ownertags every IP address.
Whilst the content of your message can be hidden, the TCP table cannot. The TCP table contains all the information required to go fish for the message.
Is there no hope?
Well if someone were to make the effort to devise an alternative routing system with self generated addresses, a permissionless network, then you could have a free network. The barrier is that all the physical network all the network cards and routers run IP. It’s a huge barrier.
But we are gradually approaching a world where you can do the impossible and circumvent the physical network that exists today.
Within a decade or two it will be fairly easy to replace the physical internet with a network of cubesats that hosts a decentralised network architecture.
It won’t be as fast as the internet, it would be slow and expensive, but it would be secure and untraceable.
Will it happen? No.
But it’s not as impossible as it once was.

2024-05-04 21:55:53 UTC

I need to get back on top of nostr. #note1q7z…ts0y

2024-03-27 00:37:36 UTC

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Her hair gets longer and shorter.
There will be zero tells within a year and soon after that video will be inadmissible in court.
It’s also the death of the internet, you will soon be able to hallucinate an internet on demand.

2024-03-26 23:53:59 UTC

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Zap to join livestream.
Digital gig tickets.
Sell live music events over the internet.
Could be enormous.

2024-03-26 23:15:00 UTC

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🫂

2024-03-26 23:14:07 UTC

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Hoping to move some of my side projects forward over the summer.
I still want to make a doesn’t-exist-computer that iPXE boots into RAM only using nothing but a USB cable.
You just have a USB cable with small flash memory hidden in the connector, it doesn’t even have an OS on it. Plug it in to a machine and it iPXE boots a web hosted image into RAM only.
Computing without a trace.

2024-03-26 23:00:41 UTC

How is everyone anyway?
I’ve been working too hard recently and that makes me a dull boy.

2024-03-26 22:59:06 UTC

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Here’s the video I posted in 3rd Feb 2023 to suggest to Jon Leger how nostrgram should load…
This is exactly how X Pro works 1 year later??
Weird. https://video.nostr.build/5c5248c3fee4de5f7674972302477628a6ed715c0e9803138443005e4ba4e1b6.mp4

2024-03-26 22:34:45 UTC

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Something got poached. It even does the top loading animation that I talked to Jon about.
Can’t be a coincidence can it?

2024-03-26 22:30:14 UTC

Huh. X Pro’s UI is indistinguishable from the nostrgram UI that @npub1t9a…h4uw built here 12 months ago. https://image.nostr.build/d1cb0e21037c18dce0be6c97c1abca04ec120bd692072a5600bc12f4dc639564.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fd84d869240a54871fd893dedf1bc0a67579e127579e2845429d6bee41b95c86.jpg

2024-03-04 22:16:19 UTC

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Agentina is going to start growing quickly and voters elsewhere are going to notice.

2024-03-04 13:18:28 UTC

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Freedman’s laissez faire economics is going to come roaring back out of Argentina this decade.

2024-02-27 23:09:01 UTC

Should I get a Nothing phone (2a)?
Anyone here tried one of these?
Tempted to have an off ramp from iOS, I sort of expect big tech is going to do big overreach stuff, as AI battles pan out… and this Nothing phone looks like something I could like.
I’m pretty sure people try this route and then go back to apple after 6 months. But I don’t need iMessage at all.
https://nothing.tech/pages/event

2024-02-25 23:32:17 UTC

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There’s an age where you stop giving AF about what people think, and for some people that happens too young and for others it happens too late.
Crucially, your only currency here is time and if you spend most of your time chasing the same thing, did you really get the full experience out of life?

2024-02-24 20:14:00 UTC

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There are places in countries where laws are interpreted and enforced differently than other places in the same country.
How free a country is depends on how you want to live your life.
Some places you are freer to live quietly, others you are freer to pursue bhag.
It’s actually very nuanced, but nowhere is there a libertarian Wild West.

2024-02-24 17:43:31 UTC

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Yeah this is really a pet project that I’m doing with kids. FBA means we can offload a lot of the actual work and keep this as a side project.
I’m really just teaching my kids some biz skills.
Already own nostrmarketplace.com and knostr.io for future use.

2024-02-19 12:47:16 UTC

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No, I’m UK.
Needs to be inside EU apparently.

2024-02-19 12:11:08 UTC

Interesting problem…
Last year I started a micro business (UK) with my kids, part of which we are selling some imported goods via Amazon. This is a neat lesson for the kids because Amazon allows us to reach 1bn people across 23 countries.
Opportunity…
The EU requires us to have a person who is resident in the EU to act as point of contact for CE marking and for any stock that is delisted and needs to be returned to seller.
There are lots of people putting up websites offering this as a service, essentially a glorified mailbox, but they all seem to be saturated with demand. Hence the opportunity.
So does anyone in on nostr who lives in EU want to earn a few € a month to do this role for our micro biz? If so DM me. Only requirement is you should have a responsible character. But ideally you are WFH, maybe freelance, contractor, w/e?
More broadly… If anyone is an EU based dev, there is an Amazon imposed deadline for everyone to adopt this by 31st March 2024 and this looks like an great shot at capturing some recurring income potentially for years.

2024-01-11 21:28:06 UTC

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You missed the fact that sperm counts are down by 70%. Are men choosing to have lower sperm counts?

2024-01-11 14:28:35 UTC

🚨 Crazy Talk 🚨
I’m sure everyone is familiar with the way birthrates are collapsing all over the place and this is often associated with higher income people wanting fewer children.
However that doesn’t really make sense, unless income is negatively correlated with sexual activity and I doubt it is, or it hasn’t ever been shown.c
So why are birth rates collapsing and why do wealthy countries lead this?
1). Sperm counts have collapsed. Everywhere that births are down, sperm counts are down. It’s not some choice, it’s not abstinence or contraceptive. It’s sperm. The data is in and wealthy sperm is bad sperm.
Why does sperm go bad in wealthy countries when poorer countries don’t have this issue?
2). Nanoplastics are everywhere. Nanoplastics are smaller than microplastics, nanoplastics are actually small enough to diffuse across the cell membrane and into cells. Whilst your skin is good at defending your body from this kind of stuff by dropping dead cells, it’s much tougher on the inside.
Last year medical studies measured that mice who ingested nanoplastics would become infertile because nanoplastics accumulates in the testes! They observed nanoplastics accumulating in mice testing and this correlated with infertility.
More recently scientists discovered that bottled water measurably contains 100,000x more nanoplastic than previously thought…
This seems like a smoking gun, it seems like lung cancer and smoking.
It seems that plastic packaging of food and drinks causes infertility we now have a mechanism for the hypothesis and this hypothesis is very strongly correlated with data of national wealth, sperm counts, and fertility rates across world population groups.
So fellas… no plastic bottles, no plastic packaged food.
But perhaps more so… boys and young men should definitely not be eating / drinking this stuff.
I think some governments are going to put all this together and figure this out in the next couple of years. But no need to wait for that. https://image.nostr.build/2db2680afdf739d024857d327f37ef7c5e6e29aa8640736f42189f64c5c88397.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ec8f5ff8a4fffca05ce736d075845e3631d3bd83b766074d95f1eb40b4aeb7bf.jpg

2024-01-08 12:21:01 UTC

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2023-12-24 15:04:28 UTC

This chart proves the case for bitcoin.
The S&P500 has never topped the 1929 all time high, when adjusted for m2 money supply (inflation, or dilution depending on pov). https://image.nostr.build/f03749a51d60418af0cbd3fa6deec41126cf2154bacbb5502e3ecf7e2d0442a1.jpg

2023-12-16 15:52:09 UTC

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As the ice on North America and Europe melted and dumped into the oceans, those two landmasses then rose up.
My house where I live is still actually rising above sea level today by approx 20mm/yr, even as the global sea level rises due to climate change.
… and my house is 1/2 mile from the beach.
We live on a very dynamic planet.

2023-12-16 15:47:42 UTC

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Atlantis speculation is fun.
It’s also wild that aboriginal stories exist about the flooding that happened circa 15,000 years ago with the meltwater pulse of the last ice age.
Neolithic history had to put up with climate change that was an entire order of magnitude more dramatic than anything we are worried about, as Europe and North America shed enormous land ice sheets that were miles thick.

2023-12-13 20:44:47 UTC

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Well said!

2023-12-13 20:42:39 UTC

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Hmm, we had energy price fixing across much of Europe and it’s not been so great for inflation, public debt, erosion of living standards, etc.
Some people didn’t freeze to death though, so some balance there. But price fixing just breeds inefficiency, waste and has a high cost burden for society at large.

2023-12-13 20:38:38 UTC

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Was the persistent trend? 🤣

2023-12-13 18:16:23 UTC

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Do you have a DeLorean?

2023-12-13 17:57:13 UTC

In the good old days, you had to walk up to a girl in a bar with a beer matt and a pencil and ask for her number.
If her friends didn’t like you… no pass.
Then you had to call her house and her mom or dad would answer the phone.
If her parents didn’t like the sound of your voice… no pass.
Today girls have DM’s and I can’t even imagine the horrors therein! I think this alone explains the collapsing birth rate. https://image.nostr.build/8096ebdaa3da99d22c51e99ac240292469c552726ec1422423ec293dfbc2bbe5.jpg

2023-12-12 18:07:32 UTC

At what point do we in the West wake up from our childish stupor and acknowledge the reality of the world we live in?
Annual CO2 emissions. https://image.nostr.build/dd0fe4a1dbda588ad2104d7ef9dbcc17845c4927f5f8942a1823d96783dde13c.jpg

2023-12-12 13:58:24 UTC

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Loving the timing of this too.
The fact they dropped it the same day as EU AI Act is just 🤣

2023-12-12 13:55:39 UTC

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We had approx 15 meetings after Sunday dinner and that’s where everything was done, maybe 90mins each. We just sit around the table after cleared up and do some stuff.
Physical goods, we just used the internet to organise / manage everything.

2023-12-12 12:59:43 UTC

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We bought some stuff and we sold some stuff.
We are just ruthlessly systemic and efficient.
One of my favourite lessons though is that speed of turnover is what matters, not margin.
Return on capital = margin ^ turnover cycles
So we are starting with stuff that is high value density, fast turnover and we are saturating out those opportunities before moving into more scalable things.
Think we underestimated the addressable market for our first stage though, so we are overachieving at the moment.
Good business just boils down to math.
People complicate it with moronic stuff and feelings.
But I’m an MEng^2 + MBA so you probably shouldn’t listen to me. Very not cool.

2023-12-12 12:35:25 UTC

Amazing to see Tim Sweeney and Epic Games have defeated Google over the Play Store monopoly.
Now they move on to Apple and the App Store.
It also seems significant that the California court has declared “monopoly”.
Really changes in the landscape are coming, with AI and now the demonetisation of hosting stores. Things are really going to get a lot more fluid again.